MEPIS Founder Plans Transition To Ubuntu

[Chanchao]

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 21:29 -0600, Randy Gloden wrote:

> >If their going to use the ubuntu base, why don't they contribute
> >directly to Ubuntu?  How do their goals differ?  Both Ubuntu and MEPIS
> >are GNOME desktop distributions, what does MEPIS want to do differently
> >than Ubuntu?

> They try to make everything work out of the box, including those things 
> that have political/philosophical dynamite attached.  

Hmm... makes me think maybe I should like Mepis more than I do
currenlty.  ;)    Absolutely hate KDE though. (Or, perhaps more
accurately: hate the way KDE is presented/configured usually, especially
including the way Mepis does it)

Also what I dislike about Mepis is that they apparently have free and
non free versions.  At that point I lose interest, as apparently I'm not
getting everything in whatever the free version is.  On Ubuntu
everything is free, there's no 'special' versions or 'server' versions
that suddenly cost money.  So...

Cheers,
Chanchao